Outfit for the Mall

Skirt - Guess

White Top - Guess

Tank Top - Guess

Shoes - New York Transit - TJMaxx

This past Saturday it was 106 degrees and my wife asked if I wanted to go to the mall.  What do you think I said?  Not much actually, I just got into the shower.  I've been a little non-communicative lately, but I thought that my actions were pretty clear about what I wanted to do.

Being as I knew it was going to be hot as hell, I donned possibly the shortest skirt I own.  I worked my cleavage up and put on some open airy shoes.  Speaking of the shoes, what do you think?

I bought the shoes the last time I visited TJMaxx.  What do you think?  I thought at the time that my outfit looked a little trashy.  My wife reassured me that I looked great.  She also highly complimented my legs.  I would say that even with my feelings about my outfit, I did notice that there were so many worse outfits on regular girls all over the mall.  It is amazing what some people choose to wear.

Anyways, I really like this picture.  I think my legs look great, I look hippy, and I love the rise of boobs!

Thanks!

Refining Your Wardrobe

To purge is a love-hate thing for most crossdressers.  If you don't know, a purge is when you take every girl thing you own and throw it away in attempts to give up crossdressing.  I experienced a purge only one time in my life.  I still miss a certain black dress that I had before I threw it all away.  At that time I truly thought that I was done with crossdressing and that I would never want any of that stuff anymore.  Well obviously that was not the case, huh?

Now what I see is that I often have a difficult time in getting rid of anything.   I keep thinking that I should hold on to things because you never know when you might want it again.  Well this past weekend I pushed myself to go through my Spanx like garments as well as my bras.  Both of those things are very difficult for me to get rid of.  This process also dealt with all of my breast inserts.

I get most of my inserts from The Breast Form Store.  I really like the ones that I have gotten from there.  I generally get the Gold Seal Classic Attachable Breast Forms.

Anyways, I had a size 6, a 5, a 4, and a 1.  I say that I had them, because I decided to get rid of them all.  My wife took the size 1's.  They make her boobs look HUGE!  Wow, jealousy much?  Yea, lots!  She has great boobs.

Okay, off topic again.  Since I decided to get rid of those inserts I also got rid of about half the bras I owned.  I will tell you, that was hard!  I really struggled with doing that, but it was certainly needed.  I had some bras in there that I probably had not worn in a couple of years.  And the really nice thing is that the bras that I kept all look really nice and fit really well.

Fellow crossdressers and fashionistas, here is my advice to you.  Go through your clothes regularly and make donation bags for things that have gone out of style, of things that no longer fit you, or things that you just don't wear anymore.  Don't think of it as a purge, think of it as a refinement.

Through years of refining my own wardrobe, I have found my own personal style and I am much happier.

Do you refine?  Or do you purge?  Or do you hoard?

Oh, I have a few pairs of really nice, $200, inserts available if you are interested, message or email me.

Even WalMart Clothes Can Be Cute

Black Tank - Bali Studio

White Shirt - Myth NYC

Jeans - LEI

Sandles - Life Stride

This was an outfit that I wore the other day when we went travelling.  It was a car sitting day so I wanted to wear something pretty comfy.  But I challenged myself to wear something that I haven't worn before.  I have never worn the black tank outside of the house.  You can't see in the picture but it is a lace tank top.  I generally have shied away from wearing any sort of lace while outside of the house.  I thought it added a nice touch to this outfit though, so I went for it.

The other thing that I like about this outfit is that I bought the jeans at WalMart.  I wear many clothing items that have a large price tag on them but this pair of jeans cost about 10 dollars.  Notice how hippy these pants make me look?  Well I do, and I got them for about 10 dollars!!

I don't think that it is important where you buy your clothes, I think that it is important that the clothes that you buy look good on you.

Hope you all are doing well ;)

Eye Makeup

Eye Shadow - Lancome

I recently got an ipad.  It is the new ipad3 and I have been pleasantly surprised.  I kind of had to get it for a work related project, otherwise I would not have gotten it.  I am really a PC/Windows person and have been a die-hard anti-Mac person, but I will have to admit the truth - I really like my iPad.

One of the things I like about the iPad is the camera on it.  I took the camera and took a close-up of my eye makeup.  That is the picture that you see above.  Really I was just playing around with my new toy, but I thought it was kind of an interesting picture.

What it shows, is a couple of things.  First, it shows my eyebrows.  I do two things for my eyebrows, one - I have them waxed.  Sometimes they are thinner, but I kind of like the way that this picture shows.  Second - I color my brows with a light colored eye shadow.  If I don't do that my brows, while thicker than many women's, hardly show on my face.  Now for my eye routine.  First - when I do my foundation, I make sure to do my eyes also, just to even out my skin tone.  Second - I apply an eye shadow foundation from clinique.  I'm not sure if that is what you call it, but it is a light colored cream base that comes out from a tube.  It makes it so that around my eyes is brighter.  It also helps to hold the shadow in place.  Third - I apply shadow.  For my shadow colors, I generally use a three or four part shadow process.  I generally use the four colors that come in the compact I am using.  There are four colors, ranging in lightness.  I apply the 2nd lightest color to my lids, the next darkest to the crease above my lid.  The darkest color, I apply in a small triangle in the upper outside corner.  I will also lightly sweep this color a little under the lower lid from the outside towards the center. Lastly, or sometimes first, I apply the lightest color to the brow portion.  The last thing I do is to curl my lashes and apply mascara.

I started off doing my eyes with inexpensive makeup from Target or WalMart or CVS.  Then I tried Clinique, and I love it.  In the picture above, I branched out and got some shadow from Lancome.  Clinique is very good for great day, or read subtle makeup.  Lancome is good for a more night look.  I generally use browns to contrast with the color of my eyes.  But with this Lancome color I chose to try and branch out and got a set with some bright blue color in it.  I kind of like it.  I like more that I proved that I can wear blue if I would like to.  I actually still prefer browns, but it was nice and will be nice to switch it up some.

I have intentions of continuing to try and document my various eye looks for you all.  But we shall have to wait to see if I follow through with that all.

Hope you all are doing well.

I'd love to know what you do for you eye make-up routines.

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Going to the Movies Again

Top - Guess

Skirt - Loft

Shoes - Aerosoles - TJMaxx

Earrings - Target

Today's outfit was worn for going out to the movies.  We saw MIB3 and I enjoyed the show.  We got to the movie area early and decided to go to TJMaxx first.  If you don't know I like going to that store to look at the shoes.  In fact the shoes that I have on in today's picture were the last pair of shoes that I purchased at TJMaxx.

 Today I challenged myself to try on shoes that I wouldn't normally try.  Generally shoes with lots of straps do not fit well onto my feet but today I tried on a pair that fit well and I decided to get them.

While trying them on it occurred to me how lucky I am that I can fit into regular sized girl shoes sold in regular stores.  I don't know if I have mentioned it before but I fit into a size 9 1/2 or 10 shoes.  These sizes tend to be the largest sizes that I often see in most store.  I feel bad for those of you whose feet are too big to be able to shop in a regular shoe store.  Many men would like to find resources for pretty shoes in their sizes, but alas I am no help for you in being able to find those locations.

Interesting in that I have always been insecure about my rather smallish feet.  Now I am thankful that I have them.

Movie Outfit

Wedges - Aerosoles - TJMaxx

Skirt - Guess

White top - Guess

Black and white tank - Charlotte Russe 

We went to the movies today and saw The Avengers.   I thought that it was enjoyable.  The theater was quite full though and dressed as a woman, or a man, I prefer an emptier theater.  Oh well, it was fine, though I did almost tip over a bit while going past some seated people to get to our seats.  It was kind of a small walk space and the theater was already very dark and showing previews.  I handled it fine, it was actually just a momentary slight unbalance on my fairly tall new wedges.

I think I told you about the shoes that I am wearing a few posts ago.  They were purchased at TJMaxx, which I will again say is a great place to get good deals on great shoes!!  I really like the new shoes. They are quite a pop of color.

I don't know if I have mentioned how much I like the little tank I am wearing.  I picked it up at a random thrift store.  My wife and I were eating ice cream on the street and a lady saw us finish and then called out to us that we should come into her store.  We went in and looked around.  It was a nice place with quality clothes at good prices.  I happened to try on this tank.  My wife said she didn't think it would work for me, being as it is basically a sleeveless top with small little shoulder straps and looks kind of ridiculous.  But I had a vision for it, which is basically how I am wearing it in the picture.

Sizes of Clothes

Many fashion blogs that I read lament the fact that there is no standard among women's clothing sizes.  And I do agree, after having tried on many different women's clothes, from many different manufacturers, it is quite true that there is no industry standard for clothing sizes.  But what I take issue with, is women thinking that this is their burden alone to bear.  Ah not true ladies, not true.

A fascinating study was done and published on Esquire Magazine's site called: Are Your Pants Lying to You? An Investigation

If you look at the graphic on that site, it clearly shows that men have to deal with the same issues that women have to deal with.  No clothing manufacturer is actually being honest about what sizes of clothes they are actually selling.  And why would they be?  Because if they were, they probably would not be selling very many pieces of clothing.

For example, one of my newest favorite clothing stores is Loft. Part of the reason behind enjoying their clothes is that they are cute, but a big part of it is the sizing system they use there.  When I first shopped at this store I took a cute skirt to the dressing room and tried it on.  I want to say that the skirt was like a size 10 or 12.  Well, it did not fit, it was too big.  So I tried on the next smaller size, and it did not fit.  I repeated this process until I found one that fit, and it was a size 4.  Damn! Hot Damn! I was fitting into a size 4.  Do you think I bought that skirt! Oh hell yes!

What had happened?  Had I magically shrunk?  Nope, it is simply that Loft uses a different sizing standard than most other stores.  Look at the chart above.  If you have a 41 inch waist and shop at Old Navy, you may be under the impression and think you have a 36 inch waist.  If you suddenly start shopping somewhere that has their clothes honestly sized, you probably would not buy their clothes because they make you feel fat.

Well here is my advice boys and girls, don't buy clothes based on what the tag says the size is.  Buy them according to how they fit on you.  If they fit well and flatter your body, then buy it, regardless of what the tag says it is.